Chapter 127: Distortion (Part Two)
Chapter 127: Distortion (Part Two)
“Go die, that treasure is mine!”
After sensing the impending overflow of Fire Spiritual Power, Chu Yunfei abruptly stood up, shouted loudly, and threw the Talisman Paper at Captain Wang, who was kneeling on the ground.
Moreover, due to excessive agitation, his face had become somewhat twisted.
Whizz!
And at that very moment, Chu Yunfei flicked his sleeve, and a dark shadow instantly shot towards the Protective Amulet floating in the air.
Clang!
The Flying Sword moved faster than the flame of the Fire Spirit Talisman, arriving first with a clang. Before Captain Wang could react, it knocked the Protective Amulet away, transforming it into a fiery red streak of light that flew into the Dense Forest and vanished from sight.
Bang!
After Chu Yunfei threw the Talisman Paper, it exploded with a bang. However, this Talisman Paper was not an ordinary one like something that produced Fireballs; instead, it was another kind of Fire Spirit Talisman refined through secret arts.
Bang!
When the Fire Spirit Talisman exploded, the air seemed to ignite, centered around Captain Wang, and with a bang, it rapidly and violently began to burn fiercely.
Thud!
Due to his internal Spiritual Energy being exhausted once again, Chu Yunfei lost his balance and once more fell to the ground. Even so, a faint smile of satisfaction surfaced at the corner of his mouth because if nothing went awry, everything would soon be his.
“Ah!”
Captain Wang, who had been kneeling there dazed, reacted in an instant. A thick wave of heat swept towards him, and he tried to dodge, but it was too late. The flames surged at him as if they were nothing.
Especially after noticing the Protective Amulet glowing with red light had flown away, a look of madness spread across Captain Wang’s face. He wanted to chase after it, but his escape route was blocked by a sea of fire. At that moment, rather than retreat, he charged forward into the flames.
Crackle crackle!
Though it lasted only an instant, Captain Wang’s clothes and hair immediately caught fire and were charred in the blink of an eye. Yet, he ignored all that and dashed directly towards Chu Yunfei.
“Ah, go die!”
Captain Wang acted like a madman, his eyes crimson, and he pressed a “claw” down hard towards Chu Yunfei, who lay helplessly on the ground.
“Not good!”
Chu Yunfei had previously believed his actions were perfect—any ordinary person would have been burned to charcoal by the Fire Spirit Talisman, even for a moment. But seeing Captain Wang still alive filled him with dread. He attempted to rise and block him, yet his painstakingly regained Spiritual Energy had been used to activate the Fire Spirit Talisman, and he was instantly terrified, his face turning deathly pale.
Clang!
As Captain Wang’s fist hammered down towards Chu Yunfei’s head, a faint layer of protection reappeared on Chu Yunfei’s skin.
“Ah!”
Ignoring the faint barrier completely, Captain Wang roared wildly and fiercely punched it again.
“Ah!”
Chu Yunfei, who was half-dead from fright, screamed in terror.
But he snapped back quickly, his lips moving slightly once more to send a silent message to Tang Jinbiao, who remained nearby, saying: “Friend, save me, save me! He’s possessed by a demon, quickly save me! As long as you rescue me, I promise you anything!”
Clang clang clang!
Captain Wang, like a frenzied beast of rage, hammered punch after punch onto the barrier. And because his previous attacks on the Lion had been too reckless, his shattered fingers grew more mangled and bloody, causing a mist of blood to form on the barrier’s surface.
“Why? Why?”
Tang Jinbiao seemed not to hear Chu Yunfei’s reply. Instead, he stood there dazedly, gazing at the spot in the sky where the Black Hole had been.
As that woman left, the Black Hole had now disappeared.
Although the Black Hole had vanished, Tang Jinbiao was still in shock. He had already accepted the ability to see souls when he first arrived, but just now, through that Black Hole, he saw the “view” behind it.
If he remembered correctly and hadn’t guessed wrong, that was the universe he had once “known well,” the one that Huang Biaozi called the “abandoned (destroyed) world,” the one he spotted during teleportation.
It was even highly likely that it was his homeland, the world where he had lived for over twenty years. But even after clearly seeing that world, he could do nothing about it.
In the past three years, Tang Jinbiao had remained in that world all along. There, he had spent a total of three thousand years.
During those three thousand years, he seemed to have become a Three-Step Great Power that Huang Biaozi had once mentioned, possibly even a Four-Step Great Power. There, with a mere thought, he could instantly travel thousands of miles. Yet, even so, after tirelessly searching for three thousand years, he still ended up with nothing but loneliness, emptiness, and endless cold.
He hadn’t wanted to recall that world, but at this moment, he was utterly confused.
He found himself unable to distinguish what was real? What was illusion!
Perhaps, some things didn’t need to be distinguished…
“Friend, save me!”
“Save me!”
The protection on Chu Yunfei’s body grew increasingly dim, yet he still didn’t forget to send a voice transmission to Tang Jinbiao, trying to awaken him.
“Haha!”
“Ahahaha!”
“Kill! All must die! Die!”
Captain Wang punched repeatedly at the nearly fading barrier, his eyes full of madness as he bared his pale teeth, looking like he wanted to devour Chu Yunfei’s flesh.
“Friend, save me, save me!”
Chu Yunfei seemed overly terrified too, his face deathly pale, his lips unconsciously sending the voice transmission to Tang Jinbiao.
“Ahahaha, die! Everyone must die! Ahahaha!”
Captain Wang had already fallen into madness, perhaps no one could stop him now.
Crackle! Crackle!
By then, the earlier Fire Spirit Talisman that Chu Yunfei had thrown to ambush Captain Wang had caught fire in the forest, making cracking sounds.
Crackle! Crackle!
Although there was no wind, once the blaze started, it spread rapidly. Soon after, everyone was encircled in a sea of fire.
If seen from far above the sky, only a roughly ten-zhang space in the center lacked flames; the outer areas were all burning.
Whizz! Whizz! Whizz!
But then, a white escape light suddenly shot toward this spot from a distance in the sky.
A moment later, the escape light abruptly arrived, and a woman’s figure appeared.
This woman had a clear, pretty face, though it was only ordinary. Her figure was rather slender, but what drew the most attention was her jet-black, waterfall-like hair, long down to her waist and lightly covering her buttocks.
This person was called Chu Yunyun, precisely Seventh Sister mentioned by Chu Yunfei, with Early Foundation Establishment Stage cultivation level. She had once had some entanglement with Tang Jinbiao at the Immortal Bathing Lake.
“What?”
When Chu Yunyun arrived here, she swept her divine sense and clearly saw the situation below. Her face instantly changed drastically, and not daring to linger, she immediately transformed into a beam of escape light, shooting toward the ground.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
At the same time as Chu Yunyun descended, she waved her sleeve, and three or five water-blue talisman papers flew out. With a bang, they exploded, transforming into endless rain that pattered down toward the ground.
Sizzle sizzle sizzle!
After that rain fell to the ground, the raging great fire began to show signs of being extinguished, emitting sizzling sounds.
Drip!
The perpetually frenzied Captain Wang, upon being dripped on by this rain, suddenly froze as if awakened. He urgently turned his head and looked toward the sky.
“What?”
Captain Wang saw a cultivator falling from the sky toward here. Especially after clearly seeing that the woman was from the Chu Clan, the madness in his eyes immediately receded, revealing clarity. He then raised his head, scanned around, and chose a direction.
The direction Captain Wang chose was precisely where the protective talisman had flown earlier. However, by sheer coincidence, this direction was also where Tang Jinbiao was located.
“Go die!”
Captain Wang finally threw a punch toward Chu Yunfei’s head, stood up at once, transformed into a shadowy figure, and dashed wildly toward Tang Jinbiao’s direction.
“Ah!”
Chu Yunfei, realizing his defense couldn’t withstand it, screamed and fainted away.
Crack crack!
Right after Captain Wang left, the protective shield covering Chu Yunfei made cracking sounds and began to shatter.
“Why? Just why?”
Tang Jinbiao looked at the spot where the black hole had disappeared, murmuring to himself.
Thud!
But at that moment, he suddenly felt a cold wind blow toward him, followed by a sharp pain in his waist.
“Ah!”
Tang Jinbiao, feeling acute pain in his waist, suddenly woke up. He saw blood gushing from his abdomen and couldn’t help but emit a painful wail.
It turned out, when Captain Wang was leaving, he had seized the opportunity during Tang Jinbiao’s inattention to launch a surprise attack. It’s unknown what exactly Captain Wang was thinking.
Rustle rustle rustle!
“Aha, everyone must die, must die!”
Captain Wang’s arrogant laughter came from deep within the dense forest, mingling with the rain falling from the sky. The laughter sounded increasingly eerie and soon vanished into the forest.
“Ah!”
Blood blended with the falling rain. Tang Jinbiao couldn’t hold back his scream of pain. But just then, he felt an immense oppressive force assaulting him.
“It’s you!”
After Chu Yunyun landed on the ground, she found her younger brother frightened unconscious. Yet, after a slight check, she spotted Tang Jinbiao and couldn’t restrain her startled cry.
“Go die!”
Chu Yunyun, recalling the events of that day, made a sword gesture with her hand. A flying sword transformed into a shadowy light and shot straight toward Tang Jinbiao.
“Why? Why?”
Tang Jinbiao had endless “whys” swirling in his heart.
He did not understand why he had seen souls.
He did not understand why he had seen another world.
He did not understand why Captain Wang had attacked him.
He did not understand far too many things.
Thud!
Regardless of what Tang Jinbiao understood or not, Chu Yunyun’s flying sword offered him no chance. With a thud, it pierced through his chest and flew out.
Splash splash splash!
As the flying sword flew out, blood mixed with rain scattered in all directions.
Buzz buzz buzz!
After shooting away, the flying sword immediately turned around and shot toward Tang Jinbiao again.
“Ah!”
The continuous agony made Tang Jinbiao wake up abruptly. He swiftly turned around, a calm beyond description filling his eyes, as if capable of seeing through worldly matters.
Bang!
With that calm gaze, Tang Jinbiao spun violently, tightened his fist, and with a bang, punched the flying sword.
Buzz buzz buzz!
For some reason, when Tang Jinbiao’s fist struck the flying sword, the supposedly unbreakable sword whimpered like scrap metal. With a bang, it fell directly to the ground.
“What?”
Over there, Chu Yunyun saw her flying sword again shattered by Tang Jinbiao’s punch. Her eyes widened in shock, but before she could react, she watched Tang Jinbiao transform into a shadow and dash madly toward the dense forest depths.
“Aha… aha… aha!”
Tang Jinbiao endured the fierce pain. Tears inexplicably streamed from his eyes (or were they just rain?). He roared like Captain Wang and raced wildly into the forest…